POOR ORGANIZATION IN COMPRESSOR PRODUCTION; NEW METALLURGICAL, FOUNDRY MACHINERY

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• Publication Date: December 8, 1952
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CLASSIFICATION CyORP'IDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Heavy machinery
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 22 MY - 30 Aug 1952
LANGUAGE Russian
CD NO.
DATE OF
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
POOR ORGANIZATIOIf Ili COMPRESSOR PRODUCTION;
NEW METALLURGICAL, FOUNDRY MACHINERY
TARDY, FAULTY PRODUCTION MARKS FOUNDRY -- Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 30 Aug 52
The assembly section of the Riga Turbine Machinery Plant did not start
work on its July quota until the next-to-last day of that month. During the
first 17 days of the month not one of the basic castings for 15 compressors
arrived in the assembly section, for the foundry did not begin to pour the
castings until the middle of the month. The crankshaft housings which are
needed before assembly can begin, did not begin to arrive in the machine-
assembly shop until 20 July. The compressor valve heads did not arrive until
the end of the month.
This performance prevented the plant from meeting its July plan; ten com-
pressors, three rock-loading machines, a turbine, and many other items slated
for delivery that month were not completed. Completion dates for assembly of
these machines were revised. Then, as their turn came, they were not met. It
was discovered that Rogov, chief of the Planning Division, had neglected to in-
clude in the July plan an order for the foundry to make castings for some bronze
bushings for the turbine. When the last compressor was tested on 16 August, a
valve head failed to sustain the pressure. Castings for these parts, made in
the last-minute rush at the end of July, were defective.
In August, the plant was to have turned out ten more compressors, but by
the twentieth of that month not one of the basic parts was ready for assembly.
Inefficient production organization and technological shortcomings are the
chief reasons for the plant's poor performance.
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Planning is practically nonexistent in the machine-assembly shop, one of
the most important in the plant. This shop consists of two large units, the
machine and the assembly sections. Parts from the foundry and the boiler-
welding shop go to the machine section where they undergo machining, and pass
on to the assembly section. Many hundreds of
section, but they are parts pass through the machine
processed there in a haphazard manner and move into the
assembly section irregularrly.
During the speed-ups which come at the end of each month, a considerable
proportion of the products of the preparatory shops show departures from the
standard. Allowances of 50 to 80 millimeters became the general rule. The
Division of the Chief Designer, with unbelievable casualness, lets such parts
go out to the machine shop without considering the great amount of metal which
will be wasted in machining.
Meanwhile, the amount of faulty products is increasing. Many parts issue
from the boiler-welding shop minus trade marks -- another irregularity which
is considered perfectly regular. No reject records are kept, so that faulty
production goes unnoted.
The directors are prepared to blame anyone but themselves for the poor per-
formance of the plant. The excuse is made, for example, that the plant lacks
proper equipment. The machines on hand, however, are not working to their full
capacity. There are not sufficient tools and attachments at the work areas.
The tool shop spends a great deal of time making parts which other shops should
be turning out, instead of spending this time making tools. The machinery and
repair shop is characterized by the same inefficiency. Finally, out-of-order
machine tools are not repaired, and sound ones are run till they wear out.
Last-minute speed-ups and poor work organization shatter work discipline
and engetier indifference and irresponsibility. At 0800 the entrance to the
plant looks like a market place. The crowd stare to work one by one when the
whistle blows, and it is followed by a daily contingent of about 20 stragglers.
The plant directors, not deigning to take due notice of these events have not
called a single case of tardiness to account during the past month.
The all-important socialist competition is weakly organized. Many workers
do not even know what their shops have pledged. Methods of leading workers are
not given sufficiently forceful dissemination.
This is not the first year that the above irregularities have existed at
the plant; former directors tolerated them too. Several months ago the manage-
ment was changed. But Antonov, the present director, and Kostormin, the Chief
engineer, are not taking the required steps to rectify the situation.
The Riga Turbine Machinery Plant pledged to meet its year plan by 20 De-
cember; even the first-quarter plan, however, is not yet fulfilled. The July
quota was only 77.5 percent fulfilled, and'it is doubtful that the August quota
will be met.
COMPLETE MILL PULL-OV R -- Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 22 May 52
The Alma-Ata Heavy Machine-Building Plant has completed a rolling-mill
pull-over device for the Zhdanov Azovstal Metallurgical Plant. The device,
weighing 80 tons and measuring 21 meters long and 12.5 meters wide, is de-
signed for moving hot-rolled 12-meter strips from the roller conveyer.
The plant is now completing a roller conveyer weighing 51 tons for the
Azovtstal Plant.
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FLYING SHEAR CONTROLLED BY PHOTOELg
6 Jul 52 CTRIC CELL -- Alma-Ate, Kazakhstanska
ya Pravda,
The Staro-Kramatorsk Plant imeni Ordzhonikidze has completed a flying shear
which cute
second sheets from a metal strip coming off the rolling mill at 6 th
- Automatically o
from the tempered perated, the shear starts to work as soon as the glov
Photoelectric c cell. per
metal strip, appearing between the shear blades, acts on
The Plant has developed
sheets it has cut. and built another automatic shear which counts the
PRODUCE 30 NEW ITEMS -- Kishinev, Sovetskaya *tldaviya,16 Aug 52
The Tiraspol' Machinery plant imeni Kirov, destroyed during the war was
not only restored, but its capacity vas 2onsiderably increased.
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During the postwar years the plant established production of 30 new items.
The series-produced DN-22 diesel engine is in operation at kOlkhozes MTS, and
plants throughout the republic. The plant also produces a great many centrifugal
PUMPS for irrigation purposes. Recently, letters from Takhiya Tash, where doz-
ens of the plant 'c motors and pumps are at work, reported favorably on the
tion of these machines.
opera-
In 1952, the plant turned out a great number of crusher-rollers for condi-
tioning molding sand. These machines have been installed in metallurgical
in Moscov, Leningrad, Kiev, Kharkov, Sverdlovsk, Barnaul, and other cities.
They also are reported to be turning plants
in outstanding performances.
The plant manufactures several types of wine presses for the republic's
viniculture industry.
Recently, the plant began to turn out die-casting machines for nonferrous
metals, and fuel tanks for kolkhozes and MPS. -- A. Nechayenko, Director, Tires-
p01' Machinery Plant imeni Kirov
NEW CASTING MACHINE -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 27 Aug 52
The Moscow Krasnaya Presnya Plant has established production of a new cen-
trifugal casting machine for turning out iron waterpipes. The first
this machine has successfully passed plant tests.
model of
BUILD AUTOMATIC PRESS -- Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 5 Jun 52
According to Stalin Prize winner Pavlov, chief designer of the Sverdlovsk
Uralmaah Plant, that plant built a new automatic press which performs all opera
tions autbmaticall,. after the part has been set up.
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Another contribution of the Uralmash plant to industry is a press which
performs all operations in the manufacture of fire brick, from loading the ma-
terial into a hopper, to unloading the finished bricks.
A rail mill which the plant built for the Novo-Tagil' Metallurgical plant,
is completely mechanized.
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